michaelnyvang

The music journalist Anders Beyer from the countrywide Danish newspaper Information once wrote about the young composer Michael Nyvang: It sounds like a music that one has never heard before, Michael Nyvang seems to be building himself up from scratch, rather than continuing an established tradition. Later this came to the point of Michael Nyvang leaving the narrow confines of contemporary classical music more or less entirely to write stories, fiction, as well as playing saxophone with friends: African music, improvisations, flamenco and jazz.

Michael Nyvang’s music covers a large palette of expressions and styles, from an hour long solo piece for piano, over recorded and electro acoustic music to the almost minimalist music in his original work River and land for the Hungarian instrument cymbalum, percussion and sound sources, which was first performed during the international music festival in Marseilles, France Les musiques 2006 by Françoise Rivalland.

He received a recognition of his sounds cinematic potential, when the Oscar winning Irish director Niel Jordan in 2009 licensed an electro acoustic composition for his movie Ondine. In 2009 he was commissioned to write original music for a play by Christophe Huysman presented at the official program during the international theater festival in Avignon.